Kslidz wrote:@recon, yep its a great reason i mean every civ up until the past 4 centuries did

And then everyone was like "hey, wouldn't it be great if we separated the Church and state so we could stop fighting holy wars and burning people at the stake?"

Lets not pretend that religion in government is a good idea. k?

oh and dont forget lets implement killing old people cause they suck and try to implement rules to kill children up to the age of 2

im not saying america is like that but communist nations are like that and communism is obviously not religious besides the letter that is quoted for keeping church and state separate doesnt suggest keeping church out of government but government put of church

Recon, church is in our government already. Just look at the dollar bill! The thing you want to prevent, though, is the church ruling the government (which it hasn't done with any country for over 500 years).

You can't get rid of religion in government. Technically, atheism is a religion. So long as a majority of the people in this country are Christian, we will have a large Christian influence in our government. If that changes, so will the influence. It's just one of those things that comes with a democracy.

Can't wholly agree on you that atheism is a religion though, Civ. Depends how you class it. If a religion is what you believe, then I guess so; but if religion requires rules and a belief system beyond a God or lack thereof (rules and such) then it doesn't really apply.